Western starring John Wayne
As the Civil War ends, former enemies join forces to track down missing gold.
Director Howard Hawks (1970)
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Musical starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye
Reworking of Holiday Inn, which gave Christmas its biggest hit song.
(1954)
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Highlights from the world athletics championships held in Stuttgart in August. British gold, American dominance and Chinese women distance runners made a memorable championship.
Behind-the-scenes look at the work of Oscar-winning animator Nick Park , the man behind Creature Comforts and Wallace and Gromit. Park's A Grand Day Out is shown at 5.35pm.
In the devastated city, a remarkable Mass is held as two priests follow a contemporary road to Cavalry.
Family drama starring Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter.
E Nesbit's classic story telling the adventures of three London children whose peaceful lives are turned upside down one Christmas.
(1971)
Disaster strikes the Banks family Christmas.
People across the world mourned the death earlier this year of Rudolf Nureyev , the Russian-born dancer who became one of the most famous figures in the history of ballet. In this documentary paying tribute to his life and work, colleagues including Dame
Ninette de Valois, Dame Merle Park , and Natalia Makarova share their memories of a man who was also a choreographer, ballet director, producer, actor and conductor. The programme includes excerpts from Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, and is followed by a film of Nureyev in performance.
Shakespeare's tragic love story is told in this ballet showing Rudolf Nureyev in one of his famous roles, opposite Margot Fonteyn , with whom he made his Covent
Garden debut in 1962. By the time this film was made, theirs had become a renowned partnership. With music by Prokofiev and the designs of Nicholas Georgiadis , it was the first full-length work for the Royal Ballet by Kenneth MacMillan , who died last year.
Director Paul CZinner (1966)
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In this Claymation comedy from Creature Comforts director, Nick Park, Wallace, an amiable inventor, sets off with his dog Gromit for an outing to the Moon. This first Wallace and Gromit adventure won a Bafta award for best animated film. This is one of three Animated2 programmes over the holiday. A sequel, The Wrong Trousers, is shown tomorrow at 5.20pm.
(Subtitled)
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Dickens's famous Christmas ghost story, is the premiere of this television version of Christopher Gable's production for the Northern Ballet Theatre. With Carl Davis's music, he recaptures a snowy Victorian Christmas Eve in London. Choreographed by Massimo Moricone, with designs by Lez Brotherston, it tells the story of the miserly Scrooge, and his encounter with four ghosts.
Film Premiere. Drama starring Michael Palin
The closeted life of an Oxford college seems the perfect environment for Victorian don Francis Ashby. But on holiday in Switzerland, he meets two American ladies and his future is changed. (1991)
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This afternoon's speech, with signing for deaf people.
Then Christmas in Sarajevo
Anthony Hopkins and his daughter Abigail Harrison appear on screen together for the first time In Alan Plater's dramatisation of Gwyn Thomas's autobiography. Hopkins plays the Welsh comic writer, playwright, broadcaster and raconteur who died in 1981. "I was an impudent, assertive child," writes Thomas, "given to making loud rash statements when everyone else had agreed that a long cautious silence was the only answer to our problems."
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An episode from the comedy pair's series, first shown in 1990, with guest Jane Asher. Director Bob Spiers
Producer Jon Plowman
Classic Luis Bunuel drama starring
Catherine Deneuve
A bored wife's exotic fantasies lead her to enter a brothel. In
French with English subtitles. With Jean Sorel , Genevieve Page.
(1967)
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Shown in the Black Christmas season of madness, murder and dark humour, a tale of horror in Edwardian London. With Laird Cregar, George Sanders.
(1945) B/W
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